Postal Service Marks 100 Years of Indy 500

I’m not a stamp collector, and I don’t even like the modern Indianapolis 500 that much. But I’m going to buy a sheet or two of these stamps.

The U.S. Postal Service this month begins selling a Forever stamp that commemorates 100 years of the 500-mile race with an image of Ray Harroun driving the the yellow and black Marmon Wasp to victory in the first Indy race in 1911.

Harroun designed the big car himself, in what for decades would be a tradition of innovation, experimentation and staggering speed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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